clipped from: www.floridapetpages.com Does your pet act very loving and affectionate one moment, only to growl or hiss just seconds later at the same hand it had been licking?
If so, your dog or cat could be among the many thousands in this country that suffer from schizophrenia.
Many of us have either heard of or read about people who suffer from schizophrenia. They exhibit multiple personalities and show an inability to come to grips with reality.
But few of us realize that the very same disorder can afflict our pets. In fact, schizophrenia is one of the more difficult and complex emotional disorders that pets can experience.
In dogs and cats, schizophrenia is characterized by rapid changes in personality - changes that are so radical, that a casual observer could easily assume that the pet has multiple personalities that are always in conflict.
Those extreme behavioral reversals happen very quickly, without any apparent trigger, and may occur as often as five or ten times in an hour.